Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810936534 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 423 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Some 650 works by such renowned artists as Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Otto Dix, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee were removed from German museums and assembled in a traveling exhibition that the Nazis called "Degenerate Art." Fifty years later, the L.A. County Museum of Art reconstructed the notorious exhibition. . Artistic expression is still under attack by such groups as the NEA, making this book strikingly relevant today. Biographical information is available for each persecuted artist as well as rare photographs, and there is a room by room survey of and guide to the 1939 exhibition with a new English translation. This catalogue not only recreates the original show, but contains exhaustively researched essays on such topics as the Nazi ideals of beauty and resistance efforts by some German museums. When the National Socialists came to power in Germany in the early 1930s, on
"if you can't think of what to paint, we'll tell you" according to mike fairney. by now it's presumably common knowledge that the nazi's had very firm ideas on art. Other than pictures of heroic nazis, grandiose mountain views and happy peasants, all modern art was considered degenerate, especially if it was painted by a jew. It's not enough just to know this, however, one wants to see what the fuss was . It's not just the pictures If the Barron/Guenther book were only about the pictures, it would still rate five stars. It has to catalog "degenerate art" (a weak translation of "entartete Kunst", but the one that has become standard) better than most of its competitors.But Barron and Guenther were not content to stop with a catalog. Even without the pic. Very informative book about art in the Nazi era jack green Great book. It's about when the Nazis took all the avant garde art out of the museums, destroyed some, and sold some overseas, which was great. They also forbade artists to paint. This is about the exhibit in Los Angeles in 1991, which I didn't go to. There was 1 in 2014 at the Neau Gallery in NYC, which was very good, and w
Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany book has been released since 2017-08-17. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany are written by Stephanie Barron and it has 423 of pages on paperback.